William Logan Crittenden

William Logan Crittenden (1823-16 August 1851) was a US Army officer who fought in the Mexican-American War and participated in Narciso Lopez's failed 1851 invasion of Cuba, during which he was captured and executed alongside Lopez.

Biography
William Logan Crittenden was the brother of future Governor of Missouri Thomas T. Crittenden and the nephew of Attorney General John J. Crittenden. He graduated from West Point and served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War, but he resigned his commission after the war's end and joined Narciso Lopez's 1851 expedition to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. On 3 August 1851, the expedition departed from New Orleans on the steamer Pampero, and they disembarked at Morrillos on 12 August. Upon their arrival, they found little support from the Cuban population, and Crittenden was given command of 100 of the 600 filibusterers and sent to guard the coast as Lopez and the other 500 men advanced inland. Spanish Army forces quickly surrounded Crittenden's troops, whose attempts to fail on lifeboats failed, and Crittenden and 50 of his men were executed as pirates at a Havana prison fortress on 16 August 1851.